Balboa Park Conservancy Blog

A place as special as Balboa Park has a way of inspiring a number of positive qualities and feelings, not only in its millions of annual visitors, but in its volunteer staff as well. Alongside a genuine love for and dedication to working in the park and helping guests...

Volunteers at the Balboa Park Visitors Center information desk need to know a lot of things, from the park’s unique history and historic architecture to events and programs at the various cultural venues and recreational facilities. So it’s not surprising that one of...

The original formal entrance to Balboa Park was located at Eighth Avenue and Date Street. But wait…there is no such address? Unfortunately, this entrance disappeared under the I-5 decades ago. Earlier this summer, I—along with several thousand other...